Fritz Leiber
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
novelist
E. L. Konigsburg
American writer and illustrator of children’s books and young adult fiction
Milan Kundera
Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Madeleine L’Engle
American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time
Choderlos de Laclos
French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses .
A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Restif de La Bretonne
Madame de Lafayette
French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clves, France’s first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
Par Lagerkvist
Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.
Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italian writer and the last Prince of Lampedusa
D. H. Lawrence
English writer and poet